History Matters

Using violence as a response to racism can both divide and unite communities. This was demonstrated when a riot erupted in the Leeds suburb of Chapeltown on Bonfire Night 1975.

One of Croatia’s most-read authors, Marija Jurić Zagorka spent her life in defiance of convention.

Nicknames can easily raise an eyebrow, but they have value to the historian beyond humour.

Recent protests in China are part of a long tradition of student activism, but results are often lacklustre.

Was the worst poet in history a hidden visionary?

On his early travels across the world it was geology that struck Charles Darwin’s interest, not biology.

Charles XII of Sweden had a thirst for war, which made him a target for the British press.

A folk favourite loved by Jane Austen and Abraham Lincoln, ‘The Irishman’ has revolutionary roots that have been forgotten.

Utopian societies promise a new way of living, but are they doomed to fail?